Samsung Teases New Smart TVs With Finger Gesture Control for CES 2014

From DailyTech: Samsung is gearing up to roll out some new, functionally enhanced Smart TVs next month at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

The new Smart TVs will incorporate voice interaction allowing the user to tune the TV to a specific channel using just their voice. As a...

Seagate to Acquire Xyratex, a HDD Test Equipment Maker

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology, one of the world’s largest storage solutions providers, on Monday announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which the company acquires Xyratex, a leading data storage technology company that develops test systems for hard disk drives...

Intel Seeks Big Slice of Microservers

From EETimes: Chipmaker Intel is looking to become the market leader in the burgeoning microserver segment that has become very prominent thanks to cloud computing and Internet services. However, as the company pushes its Xeon and Atom based offerings, analysts see chinks in its armor that a handful...

Apple and China Mobile sign deal to sell iPhones

From PC World: Apple plans to offer the iPhone to more than 760 million China Mobile customers next month, which could help it increase its share from the fifth position in this growing market.

The company already sells its phones in China through two other carriers in the country—China Telecom...

Report: First Android Phone Redesigned After iPhone Launch

From DailyTech: A new article from The Atlantic takes a look at the early days of the largest mobile software rivalry today: Android vs. iOS.

The article profiles Google's progress with Android up to the point where the iPhone was initally announced in 2007, and shortly after when the search giant...

Toshiba’s Reveals Dual-Camera Module for Smartphones, Tablets

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. said Friday that it will start sample shipments of the industry's first dual camera module along with a companion chip for smartphones, tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices on January 31, 2014. The new solution will not only allow to capture high-resolution...

SilverStone Fortress FT04 Review (Page 1 of 4)

"I utterly hate them," my friend said one day. "Those software updates are so annoying -- there's so many of them!" Let's get to the heart of the problem -- why do we need them in the first place? Well, for one thing, they fix bugs that exist in current software code, whether it is a glitch, a security issue, or some other problem. It could be as simple as implementing new and improved features. It is a necessity for people to do work on their...

Microservers & Cloud Computing to Drive Server Growth

From EETimes: The increased demand for cloud computing and high-density microserver systems has brought the server market back from a state of decline, and drawn battle lines between Intel on the one side and ARM, AMD, and a half-dozen other companies on the other.

“We’re seeing fairly significant...

Foxconn will develop some Blackberry phones

From PC World: Blackberry is turning to Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, to jointly develop and produce some models of handset, the two companies said on Friday.

The deal marks a major change in strategy at Blackberry and is the first step away from the hardware...

Hulu to Hit $1 Billion in Revenue by End of Year

From DailyTech: Hulu mentioned in October that it could reach $1 billion in revenue by the end of the year, and it looks like the video streaming company has hit its target.

According to Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins, who blogged about the company's 2013 stats today, Hulu will achieve $1 billion in...

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